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[[Image:Murray Rothbard Smile.JPG|frame|Murray Newton Rothbard]]'''Murray Newton Rothbard''' ([[March 2]], [[1926]] - [[January 7]], [[1995]]) was an [[United States|American]] [[economics|economist]] and [[political theory|political theorist]] belonging to the [[Austrian School|Austrian School of Economics]] who helped define modern [[libertarianism]] and [[anarcho-capitalism]].

In the course of his life, Rothbard was associated with a number of political thinkers and movements.  During the early 1950s, he studied with the Austrian economist [[Ludwig von Mises]] and began working for the [[William Volker Fund]].  During the late 1950s, Rothbard was briefly an intimate of [[Ayn Rand]] and [[Nathaniel Branden]], whom he would later criticize strongly, and who criticized anarcho-capitalism as pro-statist.  In the late 1960s, Rothbard advocated an alliance with the [[New Left]] anti-war movement, on the grounds that the conservative movement had been completely subsumed by the statist establishment.  It was during this phase that he associated with [[Karl Hess]] and founded ''[[Left and Right]]: A Journal of Libertarian Thought'' with [[Leonard Liggio]] and George Resch. From 1969 to 1984 he edited the ''Libertarian Forum''.